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John Derricke's <i>The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne</i>

John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne

Essays on text and context

by Professor Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney

66 B&W images; 8 colour page insert (12 plates)

  • Hardcover
  • 9781526147592
  • Published: April 2021

£90.00

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  • eBook
  • 9781526147585
  • Published: April 2021

£90.00

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John Derricke's Image of Irelande, with a Discoverie of Woodkarne is a key work of English print-making, Irish and English history and cultural misunderstanding. The work attests to the complexity of English and Irish relations, colonisation, military history, imperial propaganda, poetry, art, printing and the forging of identity in the early modern British Isles. The original work comprises of a lengthy poetic narrative and twelve famous woodcuts of the highest quality produced in sixteenth-century England. They also represent some of the only contemporary views of early modern Ireland on record. The sixteen interdisciplinary essays in this collection focus on the text's political and historical meaning, print history, iconographic elements, paratexts, literary and artistic influences, and cultural archaeology. The collection will appeal to scholars of many disciplines.